Partition for railway cars



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PARTITION` FOR RAILWAY CARS .med Dec. 21, 1927 H-f" /2 /zg fit# I I NVEN TOR.

ATTORNEY Patented July 2, 1929.

PATENT GFFICE.

'i ERNEST N. GRIM, OIF JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

PARTITION FOR RAILWAY GARS.

Application led. December 21, 1927. Serial No. 241,564.

My invention relates to partitions for railway oars and is adaptedparticularly `lor use with cattle cars whereby to provide means forsegregating` the cattle in the car.

5 rin object oit the invention is to provide a device ot this characterwhich is movable from end to end in the car and adapted to be secured inany desired position therein so as to separate the sections o1 the carintol any 10 desired area.

A further object is to provide a partition of this character which issimple and practical in construction, strong and durable, easilymovable, inexpensive to manufacture and install and otherwise Welladapted for the pur poses for which the saine is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the special construction,combination and arrangement of the various elements forming 2U theinvention as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing;n had to the accoinl'ianying draiviiigl forming part l hereof?'wherein like numerals reiter to like parts throughout the specilicationand in which Figure l is a vertical transverse sectional view through aear showing the partition in position therein7 and Figure 2 is a detailview o'l' one of the ifea teners taken along a line 2 2 of Figure l.

Referring now to the drawingin detail the invention comprises apartition composed of spaced apart vertical and horizontal ineinbers 5and (i respectively, secured to each other substantially in the fornioit' a gate.

The partition thus formed is suspended from the root 7 of the car bymeans of a pair of chains or cables 8 attached at the upper edge of eachend oit the partition and extendingv toward the center for connectionWith a supporting bracket 9 carried by pulley Wheels l0 mounted Ylormovement upon an overhead track il secured to the roof and extending,rlongitudinally from end to end oil the car.

At the ends oi the partition are attached upper and lower chain sectionsl2 adapted to have a link thereoi'l fitted over fasteners 13 arranged atspaced intervals along` the Walls la: of the car, the links being`retained against accidental dis} 3lacen'1ent by pins l5 remow ablyinserted in. the heads oit the fasteners.

Then loading or unloadingl the cattle into the ends of the car thepartition is released Ylroni the walls of the car and swung on the chainso as to extend in a longitudinal direction and permit the cattle topass at either side thereof.

Any desired number of the partitions may be employed in a vcar toseparate the saine into a nun'iber of .sections and when not in use `mayall be secured in an outeoii-the-way position at one end of the car.

It is obvious that the invention susceptible of various changes andmodifications without departing troni the spirit of the saine or thescope of the ap pended claim, and I accordingly claim all such forms ofthe invention to which I am entitled.

I claim:

In a partition for lars comijirisiug,r a partition member composed ofspaced vertical and horizontal sections, a pair of chain sectionsattached at the upper edge of the partition, a rail secured to themroolfoit the car, a pulley Wheel mounted thereon, means ior attaching thechains to said pulley Wheel and a plurality el fasteners at cach end olfthe partition adapted for securing)` the same to the Walls of the car.

In testimony Wh'ereoi' I aHiX my signature.

ERNEST N. GRIM.

